[Swordmaker]

MacWorld Frequently Asked Questions on Apple -> Intel switch...

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[1FASTGLOCK45]

Thanks for sharing!
Good info. My favorite Mac is the BIGMAC from MickeyD's.

[cabojoe]

A much less sugar coated and great informative read is available at X-bit: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/apple-x86.html

enjoy : )

[jigsaw]

Many thanks for posting this.

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

Some interesting information on the MacIntel development box can be found here: Link

Also includes some facts about Rosetta...

"What Can Be Translated?"

Rosetta is designed to translate currently shipping applications that run on a PowerPC with a G3 processor and that are built for Mac OS X. Rosetta does not run the following:

Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9
Code written specifically for AltiVec
Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane
Applications that require a G4 or G5 processor
Applications that depend on one or more kernel extensions
Kernel extensions
Bundled Java applications or Java applications with JNI libraries that can't be translated

[js1138]

This is going to be interesting. MS is moving towards taking the bois off the motherboard and moving much of it into the OS. Apple seems to be counting on the motherboard bios to protect them from cloning.